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rma -- Risk Management Guidelines - Upcoming Workshops

Posted: 14 May 2015 09:36:41
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff asks that you save
the dates of June 16th and June 18th, 2015 to discuss the Draft
Risk Management Guidelines for Stationary Sources of Air Toxics.
This document was prepared by the ARB and the California Air
Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) and contains
proposed guidance that California’s 35 local Air Pollution
Control Districts and Air Quality Management Districts
(Districts) may elect to use for incorporating the Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA) new risk
assessment methodology into their stationary source permitting
and Assembly Bill (AB) 2588 Air Toxics Hot Spots programs.   At
the workshop, ARB and CAPCOA staff will discuss the Risk
Management Guidelines and receive comments on the draft document
which is scheduled to be presented to the ARB Board on July 23,
2015 in Sacramento.  

Background:
On March 6, 2015, OEHHA released the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program
Risk Assessment Guidelines: Guidance Manual for the Preparation
of Health risk Assessments (February 2015)
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/air/hot_spots/hotspots2015.html.  In
preparation for the new OEHHA Guidelines, the  ARB and the
Districts have been working closely to develop comprehensive
plans for incorporating the new OEHHA Guidance Manual into State
and District air toxics programs.  This effort was discussed at
the ARB Board Hearing on July 24, 2014.  The draft Risk
Management Guidelines is a product of those efforts and is
intended to supersede ARB’s Risk Management Guidelines for New
and Modified Sources of Toxic Air Pollutants (1993).  

In addition to addressing district permitting and AB 2588
requirements, the Risk Management Guidelines document also
conveys ARB’s work plan for evaluating the Board’s Air Toxic
Program in light of the new risk assessment methodology and
provides the updated Risk Management Policy for Inhalation Risk
Assessments which replaces the ARB’s Interim Risk Management
Policy for Inhalation-based Residential Cancer Risk (2003). 

Schedule:
We anticipate the draft Risk Management Guidelines will be
released for public review by end of May; prior to the two public
workshops in mid-June.  The draft Risk Management Guidelines is
scheduled to be presented to the ARB Board on July 23, 2015 in
Sacramento.  For more information on the Risk Management
Guidelines, please go to our risk management webpage at
http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/rma/rma.htm.  

The workshops will be held at the following times and locations
and will be webcast:

Date: June 16, 2015
Time: 1:00 – 3:30 PM
South Coast Air Quality Management District/Auditorium 
21865 Copley Dr.
Diamond Bar, CA 91765-4182

Date:  June 18, 2015
Time:  9:00 – 11:30 AM
California Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building
– Sacramento
Byron Sher Auditorium
1001 I Street, 2nd Floor
Sacramento, California 95814

If you have any questions regarding this workshop, please contact
Greg Harris, Staff Air Pollution Specialist, at (916) 327-5980 or
gharris@arb.ca.gov.



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